Motivational Quotes

Love

Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.

- Richardson, Nick

Best Quotes about Love

Love is the river of life in the world.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Murdoch, Iris

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

Blaise Pascal

Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great --quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Lawrence, D. H.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

Davies, Robertson

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

Stendhal, Henri B.

Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

Reik, Theodor

10.

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Brookner, Anita

11.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

12.

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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When a person is uncertain in love, there is nothing easier than for him to put one and one together and to make three out of them.

Monica Fairview

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Not all of us have to possess earthshaking talent. Just common sense and love will do.

Auvil, Myrtle

15.

Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

William Shakespeare

16.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found -- not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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This world is not for aye, nor'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change. For'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.

William Shakespeare

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Lokes, Harold

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

Jane Austen

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He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Reik, Theodor

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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Shakespeare, William

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Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.

Flaherty, Edward

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Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.

Ardele, Jean Anouilh

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It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

Catullus

27.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

Eliot, George

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I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Augustine, St.

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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

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The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Mayakovsky, Vladimir

32.

The hottest love has the coldest end.

Socrates

33.

Love is stronger than justice.

Sting

34.

True love means two seeds grow separately until they join in Matrimony forever.

35.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Love lacked a dwelling, and made him her place; And when in his fair parts she did abide, She was lodged and newly deified.

William Shakespeare

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How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.

Kempis, Thomas

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When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten.

William Shakespeare

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Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Love makes everything that is heavy light.

Kempis, Thomas

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When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

Marino, Michael Garrett

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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Menninger, Karl A.

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Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Peguy, Charles